Composed By

The film score for Mel Gibson’s
Scotland epos BRAVEHEART
earned Horner his fifth Oscar
nomination in 1996. His most
dangerous competitor for

the prestigious film award was
he himself with his second
nomination for the score of
APOLLO 13. The BRAVEHEART
soundtrack definitely estab-
lished Horner as one of the
most versatile and sought-after
film composers in Hollywood.

Horner composed a score
that – like the film itself – is
both beautiful and brutal, sad
and hopeful, subtle and grand.
Horner effortlessly manages
to capture all the emotions

of the film, thereby
communicating them to the
audience. He achieves this by
combining classic symphonic
elements and the usage of
Celtic instruments such as the
bagpipes, which take us back
to the 13th century in Scotland
with their unusual sound.